Acronyms that contain the term arawak peoples 

Arawak peoples

The Arawak people are one of the tribes of indigenous peoples of the West Indies. The group belongs to the Arawakan-language family. They migrated from South America through the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean to the Bahamas in the Atlantic. They developed different cultures on the islands, and several groups have been given distinct names. The Arawak people include the Taíno, who occupied the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas; the Nepoya and Suppoya of Trinidad; the Lokono of Guyana; the Igneri, who preceded the Carib in the Lesser Antilles; together with related groups who lived along the northeastern coast of South America, as far south as what is now Brazil. The Lucayan were the natives whom Christopher Columbus encountered in 1492 when he first arrived in the Americas. The Spanish described them as a peaceful, primitive people.

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